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Seeing Forest As Merely A Carbon โCommodityโ: Dangerous Greenwashing
Commodifying forests as merely an investment for โcarbon creditsโ has many dangerous loopholes that human rights to indigenous peoples, take action!Palm Oil Detectives
Sinu Parakeet Pyrrhura subandina
Help find the Sinu Parakeet. With no confirmed sightings since 1949, these vibrant parrots may already be extinct, victims of relentless palm oil expansion.Palm Oil Detectives
Itโs that time of the year again! The course โintroduction to cloud as infrastructure: the effects of the new business of computing on practiceโ, takes off April 22 for 8 weeks for the 5th time!
If you can trek down to delft, you are welcome to join. Course capped at 40 students, priority goes to Master students. Please help spread the word!
#cloudsarenotanoption
#programmableinfrastructuresproject
@tudelfttbm @tudelft
Bear Cuscus Ailurops ursinus
The Bear Cuscus also known as the Sulawesi bear cuscus is an unusual and charming marsupial, named for their thick, dark, bear-like fur. Found only on the island of Sulawesi and nearby islands, thiโฆPalm Oil Detectives
Youโve likely never heard of the curious Red #Colobus, #WestAfricaโs rarest #primate ๐๐ต๐ Researchers now know that protecting them and the #rainforest will protect all other rare #species. Fight for their survival! #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives
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Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The #UX is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.
I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!
Leopard Panthera pardus
Of all the great cats prowling the wild, few inspire as much awe and fascination as the leopardย Panthera pardus. Sleek, powerful, and enigmatic, leopards are found across a staggering rangeโfrom suโฆPalm Oil Detectives
Keel-billed Toucanย Ramphastos sulfuratus
Keel-billed Toucans have dazzling rainbow-coloured bills and are iconic to South America. Threats include hunting, palm oil and meat deforestation. Take action!Palm Oil Detectives
Floating cities of logs: can the โlungs of Africaโ survive its exploitation?
The Congo River basin is one of the planetโs most biodiverse ecosystems. But it is also home to a growing population and relentless trade in timber and charcoalHugh Kinsella Cunningham (The Guardian)
Algae has a yum 'umami' flavour and a superb nutrient profile, especially for #vegans. It doesn't cause #deforestation either! Replacing #palmoil with #algae makes sense for rainforests #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #Together4Forests
Half Asleep Chris is my top favourite YouTube subscription! This "Cats vs Dominoes" episode is promotional of his new book. Just remember that it's a book for kids published by an educational publisher! But let me say, the sounds of everything falling in turn throughout the house is very ASMR!
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Arm64 port for Haiku
Hi there, I have start to work on an arm64 port for Haiku and the end goal is full RPI5 support. It will be interesting to see how far we can go.So far I got a minimal arm64 desktop image working in qemu: A screenshot from qemu.Haiku Community
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The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne is best known for its proud history of industry and invention, its famous football club, and its vibrant nightlife. Many people who walk the busy streets of the Toon, are unfamiliar with its dark side: real life witch trials, public execution and dissection, and of course, the vampire rabbit.
Unlike the former two very dark tales from Newcastle, the Vampire Rabbit is of a lighter order. More of an interesting conversation piece for those who seek it out or come across it by accident...
The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle upon Tyne - The Haunted Palace Blog
Newcastle upon Tyne is best known for its proud history of industry, its football club, and its vibrant nightlife.Lenora (The Haunted Palace Blog)
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How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses
As the global population has doubled to 7.8 billion in about 50 years, industrial agriculture has increased the output from fields and farms to feed humanity. One of the negative outcomes of this tโฆPalm Oil Detectives
These are our Aussie animals seeing themselves in a mirror!
I wouldn't be surprised if the magpies did recognise that they were looking at themselves. The two that come up to the mirror near the end of the video are mother and adolescent child.
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So much energy, right over our homes, that can be harvested, used, stored.
Gale winds over the UK right now.
earth.nullschool.net/#2026/04/โฆ
earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.earth.nullschool.net
Like solar, wind is also broadly distributed. I'm still awaiting an effective home wind turbine. Even at 0.1 kWh production it would make a difference at home, in addition to reducing pressure on the grid and its associated infrastructure costs.
"My friend Malcolm told me a story about pronghorns recently, the North American creatures sometimes confused with antelopes. They can run at speeds of nearly sixty miles an hour, much, much faster than any of their existing predators. Some biologists think they're still outrunning the dangerous species that went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene, specifically the cheetahs that existed on this continent. And then Malcolm asked what each of us is still outrunning and whether we can tell when our predator has been extinct for ten thousand years."
โ Rebecca Solnit: The Faraway Nearby, pp. 231-231
For a while now I've been wanting a generic notation to explain various things on my wiki(tropical arithmetic, multisets, other programming languages, ternary logic, primes, etc..) and I found a PL design I really enjoy writing.
It lands in a weird place, I feel like it might be the only concatenative language without a stack? As far as I know anyways.
I took a day to implement it, and shoved it into a little interactive playground. I have yet to populate the examples.
wiki.xxiivv.com/site/rejoice
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Oh yeah, that's interesting..
[] x/y^y
[x]
I guess that makes sense..? It's basically saying if there are zero instances of y, put a x. I.. I don't know what I think about this but I don't think it's wrong, it's just bizarre.
It acts as a kind of "remove all instances y, and put a x, regardless if there are y or not".
[z^x z^y]/[x^x y^y] (empty x and y into z). Interestingly though this doesn't seem to work properly if one reuses symbol (e.g. [x^y y^x]/[x^x y^y] does not swap the number of xs and ys)
@mia ah yes! that's a bug I noticed, the order of application I feel is not quite right.
The issue is that I modify in place, so application modifies that numerator, and then the numerator does another read, and the value has changed already at the point. It's why I've been trying to circling around fractions that modify a value in the numerator, and using that value as an exponent in the denumerator. Something I have to try and figure out today. This is all very experimental X)
This is all very experimental X)
that's exactly why Rejoice piqued my interest! it lights up my little mathematician brain
I notice you fixed this bug, nice! after a little play I found the following cute implementation for the nth Fibonacci number:
y n^10'[y^x x^y]/[x^x n]
(In particular, it's cute because one gets to see the fraction mindset in practice: one could view this as a reduction of the more natural fraction '[y^x y^y x^x]/[y^y x^x n])
looking forward to playing with this more!
@mia Devine shared this thread with us and it inspired the discovery of the "Harmony" combinator: eq/[x^y y^x]. Given the bag is matched using >=, the denominator implies bag[x] >= bag[y] && bag[y] >= bag[x]. This expression is only satisfied when bag[x] = bag[y].
So, now you can precisely match on things. And if you have a token that never exist, you can enforce a bag[x] = 0 match: [none-x]/[x^none none^x].
A very powerful expression. As the traditional Fractran model has no means of matching on empty. Before you'd need to do none-x [x]/[x none-x]. Basically "assume x does not exist until proven otherwise".
I've removed the duplication assignment lock, since application is properly in parallel now, here's Collatz in pretty much two fractions:
Brutalist #EasterBunny
Edit: Located in the Pupuhuhta ('Bunny Swidden') neighbourhood of Jyvรคskylรค, Finland.
Thank you @splonk
for the identification.
Let's protect it.
Free Android softsynth, I ran out of spoons with this one and want to concentrate on making Resonance as good as it can be instead so: orllewin.uk/programs/android/rโฆ Makes good weird noises, can be nice and tame, or filthy. It uses PureData for the audio engine, I'll upload the code somewhere soon.
Sun Bear Helarctos malayanus
Sun bears are playful and energetic small bear species from South East Asia who are increasingly becoming marginalised by deforestation and trade for their body parts. With their glistening golden โฆPalm Oil Detectives
Today Iโm live on Product Hunt answering questions and evangelizing Activitypub and the social web among the founders and product builders there.
You can join in here:
Iconic #birds of #Venezuela ๐ป๐ช #Mexico ๐ฒ๐ฝ #Honduras ๐ญ๐ณ Keel-billed #Toucans are rainbow flocks of rainforest joy! ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ชฝ Help them survive be #vegan and call out #poaching and the illegal pet trade #Boycottpalmoil ๐ดโ #Boycott4Wildlife
palmoildetectives.com/2026/04/โฆ
Keel-billed Toucanย Ramphastos sulfuratus
Keel-billed Toucans have dazzling rainbow-coloured bills and are iconic to South America. Threats include hunting, palm oil and meat deforestation. Take action!Palm Oil Detectives
Wine 11.6 is an exciting release to make modding Windows games on Linux simpler gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/wineโฆ
#Wine #Proton #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck
Wine 11.6 is an exciting release to make modding Windows games on Linux simpler
Wine, part of what makes Proton run so many Windows games on Linux, just had a very interesting release that will help game modding.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
This week's comic on the authoritarian takeover of US media
#media #uspol #democracy #journalism #authoritarianism #oligarchy
As someone on here said a few years back...
"Musk paid 44 Billion Dollars for Twitter. The entire Star Wars franchise was purchased for 4 Billion...I think about that sometimes."
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Scott Jenson
in reply to Scott Jenson • • •As this conversation is spiraling a bit I want to make a few things clear:
1. I'd like Mastodon to be MORE inclusive and bring in more voices
2. Some people don't seem to want that
3. This is core problem to solve: How do we let more in, but not "pollute" your feed?
4. The solution is NOT "gatekeeping", revelling in the fact that AI journalists aren't welcome
5. This is the same reason we lost "Black Twitter" when it came over in 2022
Yes, a lot of you don't want AI posts in your feed (or pick any other topic) but the solution isn't to keep "AI People" from joining Mastodon, any more than it is keeping marginalized communities off of Mastodon.
Eugen Rochko
in reply to Scott Jenson • • •Scott Jenson
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron That is a personal choice and one which I totally respect. But I do think Mastodon should be big enough, and open enough, to allow an "AI community" to form, even thrive.
Too many people in my replies don't seem to agree with that.
James Bogosian
in reply to Scott Jenson • • •@Gargron I just came back to my Mastodon account and one of the first things I see is people who have an interest in something being compared to puppy-killers by the "head" of Mastodon.
<turns it back off again>
Eugen Rochko
in reply to James Bogosian • • •millennial fulcrum
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Wouter ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ง๐ท๐ง๐ช
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Jef Poskanzer
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Robin Adams
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Matt Wilcox
in reply to Scott Jenson • • •@Gargron It already allows that. The culture simply isnโt permissive of it. But that has nothing to do with the technology.
Mastodon is a system which attracts certain audiences because of its values and choices. Those are different to other systems. Thatโs perfectly fine. Thatโs good.
We donโt need to seek an audience with the same make up as other services. We need to work on systems that have the values we care about. Nothing more.
Scott Jenson
in reply to Matt Wilcox • • •@mattwilcox @Gargron But that is a slippery slope. I realize this might seem contentious but I believe it's is exactly the same mechanism that chased away black twitter in 2022. If we celebrate our culture, to the point that we are happy we are excluding others, it can cut both ways.
"Being inclusive" is like being "ethical" it only matters when things get hard.
Sharp Cheddar Goblin
in reply to Scott Jenson • • •Eugen Rochko
in reply to Sharp Cheddar Goblin • • •hko ๐ท๐ช
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron As a general observation, I think asking for "civility" is often the equivalent of a "code smell":
Sure, there are cases where it may be appropriate in the current context. However, I suspect that more often than not, it's a sign that one is brushing aside some oppression-related complaint (often from a position of relative power in the situation).
I think it's a good idea to always pause before writing about "civility", and let the matter bounce around in one's head for a while.
Matt Wilcox
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Keith
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Cap Ybarra
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Colman Reilly
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •cmdr โ nova โธธ :~$ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Furbland's Very Cool Mastodonโข
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Kierkethumbs up convincingly
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I want to quote you and have that made into a cross-stitch wall hanging.